A dark shape, a wooded clearing, a disappearing ship. A tin cup whistling on a string. Rabbits gathered in a torn dress. Experience a multimedia, site-specific theatre piece/alternate reality game, inspired by classic point-and-click adventure games. You will travel to mystery locations all over Austin to find objects such as letters, photographs, home movies, and time capsules to uncover the narrative alone or in a group, on your own time (within the month of May). It should be completed in 4 hours, but can (and should) be spread out over the course of a week or a month. Smart phone required.

Quite beautiful...eloquent...As this reviewer drove home he relived a sense of the after dark fun he used to have in the backyard when the very stars were alive and monsters crept in the shadows...wildly experimental. 

An existential haunted house featuring nihilism, initiation rituals, self-help, and bad public access television

The Society for Hard Determinists invites you to become its newest member. Allow us to unburden you from the yoke of choice. Come discover how much freedom there is in letting go of the hardship of voluntary decision. We’ll show you how to destroy your ego, and unlock your maximum potential. We think you’ll really enjoy the transformational journey we’re going to take you on!

Special thanks to The Museum of Human Achievement and The City of Austin for helping produce this.

"Many effective surprises in this fascinating and original performance ritual...points of incredible insight and inspiration in the show, given quite simply as gifts to the initiates...This reviewer walked slowly out into the cool autumn evening, feeling refreshed, affirmed, and well loved...for the adventurous...an experience perhaps unlike any they have ever known before."

"Masks, robes, blindfolds, trust exercises, meditation, video, an invitation to primal shouts and to respond -- or not -- to questions; hugs, a touch of quantum physics, a touch of philosophy. No faces other than your own...A ritual moment of invitation, passage and assumption. A final blindfolded journey....Not a brain washing, exactly, but a very intimate and seductive brain rinsing that leaves you calm and slightly disoriented."

- Michael Meigs of Central Texas Live Theatre

LITTLE MOTHER - Feb 2013 - August 2014

Feathers, fur, skin, or scales?The tape recorder skips. A memory misfires.Somewhere a little bird falls from a great height.A paper tiger crumples in its cage.A baby is born.A hermit crab grows too large for his shell.

Little Mother is a living silent film for the stage--a dark fairytale featuring subtitles, live acting, shadow puppetry, and original score performed by a live chamber ensemble.

Nominated for a B. Iden Payne Award for "Outstanding Original Score"

Little Mother was selected to be part of the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2014. It was produced and performed by Lust & Liberty and directed by Paul Markert.

"Starkly beautiful, dark, and sumptuous, Little Mother is a triumph for writer Katie Green and for Lust and Liberty. Reading like a love letter to fringe, this dust bowl fairytale is a transportive pleasure to watch...Lust and Liberty draw a line in the sand with this show and challenge their fellows to live up to the new standard."-William Glenn, Official Fringe Review

"You will be thoroughly charmed by Little Mother, a delicate and skillfully constructed live-for-stage silent movie...The simple dialogue cards soon transition into gorgeous projections of imaginative shadow puppets, adding a layer of fairy tale to the narrative. Actually, all of the design work in Little Mother is just plain beautiful."-Rachel Kerry of New York Theatre Review blog

"The projections are striking...A beautiful original score by Shawn Jones...visually and aurally charming...a promising fringe NYC debut."-Morgan Lindsey Tachco of Nytheater Now

(photos from the April 2014 production at the Museum of Human Achievement in Austin, TX)

"Another criminally under-seen play, this short shadow-play penned by Katie Green was one of the most startling presentations this year. A fable full of whimsy, heartbreak, and horror, it uses clever puppetry, and excellent music and sound design, to tell show us dual stories of a young mother pushed to her limits to make ends meet, and a fable of two circus animals, an elephant and a chicken, whose lives change when they come across an abandoned child. The piece flows over one like a passing dream, at times a nightmare, but it’s a dream this critic simply didn’t want to wake from." - Ryan Johnson, Texas Lifestyle Magazine (named one of the top 10 theatre productions in Austin, TX of 2013)

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